I protected the baby: there were stray bullets flying around super close to him!!! what the fuck, 50 percent of players who chose not to?
I went to help Luke: he was in no condition to pull himself up, and Clem was his best shot. but... it didn't work...
at least he saved Clem, one last time :')/:'(
I didn't ask to leave with Mike: if they were taking the baby I would've said yes, and if they consulted Clem too. But they didn't. They were gonna abandon a baby and a kid (and also Jane I guess), that's deplorable. And they'd take Arvo, above all the rest? I stuck up for that kid but he was not to be totally trusted, and then he fucking shot Clem! >:[
I... shot Kenny
He had lost it. When Jane put away her knife during that fight, that made me side with her a bit more, but Kenny kept pushing. And while Mike and Bonnie's plan to abandon everyone was their own decision, it was greatly motivated by Kenny's falling apart. If he kept it together and wasn't so insistent on chasing an impossible goal (Wellington, and that stubbornness for a hopeless cause just reminded me of his drive to get to Savannah in S1E3 in the hopes of finding some miracle cure for Duck) then the group might've either held together a bit longer, long enough for them to establish a better survival situation, or for people to split amicably. But the past three episodes had all been building to this: Kenny losing it more and more, and becoming more and more dangerous and unreasonable. They should've gone back to the Howe's there was baby formula there, they could at least have sent in zombie guts-covered scouts to retrieve it if it was still swarmed. They could've rested a bit, figured out a plan, or something; he jumped the gun and drove everyone apart.
but that said...
I didn't go with Jane: at first, when she reached the rest stop and Kenny went out looking for AJ, I thought that maybe she had hid AJ somewhere, maybe to distract Kenny, or something? But then I wasn't sure where she could even do that (I assumed hiding him at the rest stop was out because Kenny would've been there first), but after Kenny went out to search for AJ, and then came back, it sounded like he happened across the body (and when she said it as an accident I assumed accidental stabbing). But no, she came up with some incredibly dangerous scheme, all just to prove a point. She wasn't concerned with Clem's safety, not really, she was just using Clem as a substitute of her dead sister, only Clem had internalized enough survival skills to ensure what happened to Jane's sister wouldn't happen to Clem. And I wasn't gonna have Clem go off with someone like that, not with AJ, who Jane was constantly on about leaving behind. I'm sure Jane would've gone along with Clem and AJ together, but there's no way anyone should trust her around a baby after she risked his life to prove a point.
In the end, I think this was probably for the best, at least, the going separate ways part. Neither Kenny nor Jane were safe to be around anymore, and I guess Kenny would've never given AJ up, so maybe his dying was the best thing for both Clem and AJ. And for Kenny, too, maybe. As for Jane, I don't think she deserved to die for that stunt, not exactly, but she shouldn't be around Clem. I hate to equivocate her crime to Lily's (since Lily murdered someone purely out of spite), but they ended up with similar punishments as a result of my choices.
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I'm very pleased how things were handled with Luke this episode, he felt much more like the Luke of the first two episodes (no screw ups! lots of replacement-Lee vibes!), and the whole sex thing was resolved nicely (knows it was bad thing, regrets it, feeds into his guilt at surviving when every other person in his group has died). I was pretty surprised they killed him off so soon into the episode, but now that's it's all finished I can see why. Things wouldn't have turned out the way they did if Luke survived, not least because his death led Kenny to beat Arvo which led to Bonnie and Mike's attempted escape. But even beyond that, Luke and Clem working together to mediate things between the group might've stopped all this tragedy from happening. Maybe. I dunno.
and then... that Lee flashback
